55 m. ago Britain and France try again to tackle English Channel migrant crossings

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are focusing on stopping migrant crossings in the English Channel

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6 h. ago Proof work DOESN'T pay under Starmer's Labour: Sickness benefits to be worth £2,500 MORE than a minimum wage job

Earnings of the unemployed who claim ill health payments will overtake those of workers on the national living wage next year, warns a think tank.

Economics

9 h. ago Revealed: Unemployed people on sickness benefits paid £2,500 more than minimum wage workers

A Universal Credit claimant who is not working and claims housing payments and PIP for ill health will receive £25,000 next year, according to research

Economics

11 h. ago Jobless are better off on benefits in Starmer's Britain: People on sickness benefits are set to be paid £2,500 MORE than those in a minimum wage job

Jobless people on sickness payments are due to overtake those on the national living wage who will earn less after tax, the Centre for Social Justice found.

Economics

12 h. ago Britain's bloated benefits bill: Jobless on sickness benefits set to be paid £2,500 MORE than those in a minimum wage job

Jobless people on sickness payments are due to overtake those on the national living wage who will earn less after tax, the Centre for Social Justice found.

Economics

24 h. ago Macron and Starmer talk Trump, boats and Ukraine – but Brexit is the ghost at the banquet | Rafael Behr

The prime minister has repaired broken relations with France, but Britain still looks perilously isolated in a world of shifting alliancesGilded carriages and royal banquets are not essential tools of modern diplomacy, but nor are they obsolete. In a digital age, when intergovernmental business could easily be conducted online, the analogue grandeur of a state visit feels potent as a bestowal of favour.This week Emmanuel Macron is the beneficiary. In September it will be Donald Trump. The sequence is not meant to indicate preference. Both relationships are special, say officials. There are enough champagne receptions and sleepovers at Windsor Castle to go around.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnistOne year of Labour, with Pippa Crerar, Rafael Behr and more On 9 July, join Pippa Crerar, Raf Behr, Frances O’Grady and Salma Shah as they look back at one year of the Labour government, its current policies and plans for the next four years Continue reading...

Politics

24 h. ago Number of patients in UK waiting for lifesaving organ transplant at record high

More than 8,000 people, including almost 300 children, are on waiting list, as NHS sees sharp drop in donorsThe number of patients waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the UK has increased to a record high while there has been a sharp drop in donors, official figures show.More than 8,000 people, including almost 300 children, are on the transplant waiting list, according to NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). With nearly another 4,000 in need of an organ but temporarily off the list because they are too sick or unavailable for an operation, it means almost 12,000 people are living in limbo, waiting for the call that can mean the difference between life and death. Continue reading...

Science

30 h. ago Sickening new number of people still missing in the Texas floods revealed by Governor Greg Abbott

LIVE UPDATES: The Texas flash floods have consumed the lives of at least 111 people, with authorities warning the death toll is almost certainly going to continue to rise.

Events

4 d. ago EXPOSED: The boat migrant fixers all over Britain making a mockery of Starmer's claim to be smashing the gangs

Even the well-heeled clientele inside the establishment, in the heart of a wealthy London suburb, appear oblivious to the sinister dealings going on around them.

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4 d. ago Amount Charli XCX was paid to perform at Glastonbury is revealed

The singer, who had the headline slot at The Other Stage last Saturday night, drew a crowd of thousands of people and the stage had to be closed.

Politics

5 d. ago 'Why would I get a job? I get your monthly wage in a week!' As Starmer's bid to cut disability benefits is sunk by Labour MPs, social media tutorials show claimants how to milk the system

Mastering the red tape behind Britain's bloated benefits system can apparently also present extraordinarily lucrative business opportunities.

Politics

7 d. ago Europe 'doomed to war with Russia,' as Putin puppet demands strikes against continent

Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov has called Britain's prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz satanists

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9 d. ago Starmer has no energy, vision or strategy for Britain on the world stage. He offers only weakness, decline and a disregard for the sovereignty of this nation: NILE GARDINER

In the week of the first anniversary of Starmer moving into No 10, the polling guru Sir John Curtice said that he has had 'the worst start for any newly-elected Prime Minister'.

Politics

9 d. ago Keir Starmer refuses to weigh in over Britain's declining birth rate as No10 says PM 'won't tell people how to live their lives'

A No10 spokesman insisted the PM would not 'tell people how to live their lives' despite one of his Cabinet ministers urging more young British women to have babies.

Politics

1 week ago MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: If ever we needed an effective opposition to rout Labour, it's now

Is there no limit to the price Britain must pay for having given Keir Starmer's Labour Party a chance a year ago?

Politics

1 week ago Keir Starmer issues vow to Britain's vulnerable after benefit cuts U

In a speech to the Welsh Labour conference that came after a major U-turn on reforms in the face of a backbench rebellion, he said fixing the "broken" system must be done in a "Labour way"

Politics

1 week ago JADE says Little Mix 'changed her life' as she brings on special guests at Glastonbury

During her Glastonbury set, Jade Thirlwall paid tribute to Little Mix and said being part of the girl band changed her life - but added she is now happy to work on her own music

Politics

1 week ago KEIR STARMER: Britain will serve our Armed Forces warriors as well as they serve their nation

Writing for the Mirror on Armed Forces Day, Keir Starmer called on the whole country to rally round and "take a moment to say a heartfelt: thank you"

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1 week ago If Britain is broken, what is to blame – big money and big tech, or graffiti on your train? | Tom Whyman

A new cadre of agit-prop campaigners has been cleaning the London underground, but there is more to the political stunt than meets the eyeBritain, let’s face it, is crap. Crap, I mean, in quite a specific sense: we might not be teetering on the brink of civilisational destruction, as the post-Brexit right can often seem to think. But there nonetheless remains a vast, ambient sense of rubbishness. Everything is expensive but nothing works. Our streets are full of potholes; our houses are full of mould. All the shops are shut, except for a Tesco Express, where there are security tags on the eggs. It takes about a million years to build a railway line.Up to now, the response to Britain’s enshittification has, by and large, seemed remarkably fatalistic: Keir Starmer spent the first year in government repeatedly insisting that there just wasn’t any money, and so really nothing could be done. Thank God then, one might think, for Looking for Growth, a new campaign group led by young (well,...

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2 w. ago LIZZY BUCHAN: 'I was at the NATO summit as Keir Starmer delivered chilling warning on threats to Britain'

At the NATO summit, Keir Starmer addressed the grim message in the National Security Strategy that Brits need to prepare for the threat of war on home soil

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